APCC Program

AUSTRALIAN PRIMARY CARE COLLABORATIVE (APCC) PROGRAM

The Australian Primary Care Collaboratives (APCC) Program is a large quality improvement program which is being implemented by the Improvement Foundation (Australia) (IFA) and funded by the Commonwealth of Australia.

The APCC Program helps general practitioners (GPs) and primary health care providers work together to:

Improve patient clinical outcomes

Reduce lifestyle risk factors

Help maintain good health for those with chronic and complex conditions and;

Blacktown Family Medical Centre was recently invited to participate in the State Wave Program which continues over a period of 18 months. Topics which were focused on were Access and Care redesign, Diabetes and Coronary Heart Disease (CHD), Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), and Chronic Disease Prevention and Self Management (CDPSM).

From this program Blacktown Family Medical Centre improved on the following aspects:-

Improved patient care through better management of chronic diseases

Increased best practice care through better use of information systems (both medical and business systems)

A cultural shift from individual patient care to population based care

Changes in service delivery to improve efficiency within general practice

Increased use of protocols and procedures to improve practice operations